busiest – The News Desk

Atlanta tops world’s busiest airports in 2023 – Business Traveller

15Apr

By adminNo Comments

Travel

Atlanta tops world’s busiest airports in 2023 – Business Traveller

Airports Council International (ACI) World has published its preliminary ranking of the world’s busiest airport in 2023, with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International again topping the list. The airport welcomed more than 104 million passengers last year, significantly ahead of Dubai International which served just under 87 million. Dallas Fort Worth was third with around 82 million passengers, with London Heathrow in fourth place – as previously reported the London hub served 79.2 million passengers in 2023. Tokyo Haneda jumped from 16th place in 2022 to fifth last year, welcoming just under 79 million passengers. In terms of the busiest airports for international passengers, Dubai International took top spot, followed by London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris CDG and Singapore Chan...

OAG reveals busiest airline routes in 2023 – Business Traveller

Aviation analytics firm OAG has published its report on the busiest airline routes for 2023, with Kuala Lumpur International-Singapore Changi topping the list of international routes. The route had a total of 4.9 million seats last year, pushing Cairo-Jeddah down to second spot with 4.8 million seats. Seven of the top ten busiest international routes involved Asia-Pacific destinations, with Hong Kong-Taipei taking third spot with 4.6 million seats (down around 43 per cent on 2019 levels). New York JFK-London Heathrow came in eighth position with 3.9 million seats. However these figures are far smaller than those for the busiest domestic routes for 2023, with Jeju International – Seoul Gimpo seeing 13.7 million seats, followed by Sapporo New Chitose – Tokyo Haneda (11.9 million) and Fukuo...

Dublin airport reports busiest ever day – Business Traveller

Dublin airport recorded its busiest every day last weekend, with a total of 120,585 passengers travelling through the hub on Sunday 30 July. The airport also reported passenger figures of over 3.4 million for the month of July, which it said was 13 per cent higher than the same period in 2022, and “on a par with July 2019”. The total includes 205,000 transfer and transit passengers. The airport also said that 99.6 per cent of customers passed through security in less than 20 minutes last month, and on the arrivals side it took an average of 19 minutes for bags to be delivered from the aircraft to the baggage belt. “Given July was the wettest month on record, it’s perhaps no surprise that thousands of passengers opted to swap soggy Ireland for sunnier climes and jumped on a flight for a l...